UCLAB Potsdam

🎡 We’re in Vienna for #ieeevis:

Gianna Grün presents the poster »What Makes Data Visualizations Difficult to Understand?« (with Christina Elmer & @nrchtct@vis.social): https://gcgruen.github.io/ieeevis25poster-supplemental-material/Data-Dimensionality-Influence-on-Understanding-Visualizations-Poster-compressed.pdf
📄 https://gcgruen.github.io/ieeevis25poster-supplemental-material/Data-Dimensionality-Influence-on-Understanding-Visualizations.pdf

@markjan@vis.social co-organizes the #VIS4DH workshop: https://vis4dh.dbvis.de

@nrchtct@vis.social presents »Textarium: Entangling Annotation, Abstraction and Argument« (with @proff@vis.social) at that workshop:
https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/textarium/
📄 https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13191

👋 Say hi!

#DataVis #DigitalHumanities #DataJournalism

🎉 The Information is Beautiful Awards were just announced at #Outlier2025 and we are thrilled and thankful to receive Gold with »I Want a Better Catastrophe: A Flowchart for Navigating our Climate Predicament« by #AndrewBoyd, @jona@vis.social & @nrchtct@vis.social

🔥 Try it out: https://flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com

🏆 Entry on award website:
https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/7487-i-want-a-better-catastrophe-a-flowchart-for-navigating-our-climate-predicament

🛠️ Create your own interactive flowchart: http://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/interactive-flowchart/

#Outlier2025 #IIBAwards #DataVizSociety #BetterCatastrophe #DataVis #InterfaceDesign #FHPotsdam

🎉 Last night, @jona@vis.social received the Designpreis Brandenburg for the project »I Want a Better Catastrophe« in the category: Digital Design, UX/UI, Game Design Young Professionals! 👏

The interface connects audio narration with open-ended exploration, offering new ways to navigate the complexities of the climate crisis. It is available as a free template!

▶️ https://flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com

📄 https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/projects/interactive-flowchart

🏆 https://designpreis-brandenburg.de/ausgezeichnet/

#BetterCatastrophe #Flowchart #InterfaceDesign #FHPotsdam

We're excited to be in Lisbon for #DH2025 where we'll be sharing our latest work at the intersection of #DigitalHumanities and #DataVis:

👗 »3D Stories: Bringing Cultural Heritage Objects to Life«
try prototype → https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/3dstories/

🖼️ »Laying it all out: Collage as a co-creative method for designing collection interfaces«
see collages → https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/collagingworkshop/

📔 »Stereoscopic Journals: An archive interface entangling diary segments with photo series«
try prototype → http://stereoscopicjournals.it

🔥 »I Want a Better Catastrophe« made it onto the short list of the Information is Beautiful Awards in the “Places, Spaces & Environment” category.

The flowchart by @jona@vis.social combines audio narration with interactive elements as an invitation to join #AndrewBoyd on his narrative path and explore our predicament on your own: https://flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com

You can find all other short-listed entries here: https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase?action=index&award=2024&controller=showcase&page=1&pcategory=short-list&type=awards

#IIBAwards #BetterCatastrophe #Flowchart #DataVis #InterfaceDesign #FHPotsdam

New project for #typography & #calligraphy fans: we just launched the ARETE visualisation – a visual and interactive history of the Latin alphabet!

https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/arete/en

The visualisation reveals the diversity and variance of the Latin alphabet in the last 2000 years.

The project is not complete. Rather, it is a first attempt to bring the history of the alphabet into an interconnected structure and to present the major historical developments in a clear, evocative way. We welcome feedback!

🥳 To celebrate our first 10 years, we gave our website a complete refresh!

🚀 https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de

A big thank you to @jonaspelzer@mastodon.social who put our projects front and center, balancing a clean grid with playful, tilted cards. Our kinetic logo created by Chris Magiera & Phillip Kortlang still leads the show, paired with Fabian Fohrer's eyecatching Exposit typeface inspired by Joseph A. David's »Plaque Découpée Universelle« from 1876. And finally, we switched from Wordpress to @getkirby@mastodon.social

#FHPotsdam

👋 Moien Luxembourg, we're happy to be at EuroVis 2025! 📊

@markjan@vis.social will give a long presentation about »Fluidly revealing information: A survey of un/foldable data visualizations» - Wednesday morning. Check out the survey browser here (⚠️: lots of GIFs): https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/unfoldables/

Theresa Eingartner will give a short talk about »Inflecting data visualizations for web-based scrollytelling« - Thursday afternoon. See it in action here: https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/inflect/

#DataVis #DataViz #EuroVis2025 #EuroVis

Two new papers on #Storytelling & #DataVis to be part of special issue of IEEE CG&A on #CriticalDataVis:

Critical Interactivity: Exploration and Narration in Data Visualization
by @framoriniii@vis.social Manuela Garretón @jona@vis.social Nadia Zeissig @SabineDG@vis.social @fidel@vis.social @dielindada@fedihum.org @ikyriazi@vis.social Andrea Scholz & @nrchtct@vis.social
https://doi.org/10.1109/mcg.2025.3544684

Towards Collective Storytelling: Investigating Audience Annotations in Data Visualizations
by @tobiaskauer@mastodon.social @nrchtct@vis.social & Benjamin Bach
https://doi.org/10.1109/mcg.2025.3547944

#OpenAccess #FHPotsdam

»Visual and Dynamic Arrangements of Narratives« funded by @bmbf_bund@social.bund.de has come to an end with a major update of the project website documenting activities and outcomes over last 3.5 years!

https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/vidan/

Big thanks to perfect partners civity Management Consultants and @tazgetroete@mastodon.social

#vidanfhp #scrollytelling #datavis #datajournalism #datastories

Two days left for the #OpenRefine and #Wikidata workshop offered by @ikyriazi@vis.social together with @4nn4_clickt@mstdn.social @sonjathiel@mastodon.social @_omwo@digitalcourage.social and @tibosl@openbiblio.social (in German).

More information and registration: https://kreativ.mfg.de/veranstaltungen/detailseite/1513-online-workshop-coding-da-vinci-goes-wikidata/

Last week @jona@vis.social Pomerance presented the interactive and narrated #BetterCatastrophe flowchart at #infoplus2023 in Edinburgh. For this occasion we also released Interactive Flowchart as a free reusable template with detailed explanations of its structure, a visual step-by-step tutorial, and 12 student examples covering a range of well-known personal dilemmas.

Find everything compiled here:
https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/interactive-flowchart/

#Flowchart #Datavis #Infodesign #Storytelling #FHPotsdam